Sound Effects Quotes

• Words rich in meaning
  Can be cheap in sound effects.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sound, Rich, Effects

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.

  Paul Rotha

  Real, Sound, Cinema

  Paul Rotha, Robert Kruger, Duncan J. Petrie (1999). “A Paul Rotha Reader”, p.60, University of Exeter Press

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• An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.

  Tom Hanks

  Voice, Drawing, Long

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• The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

  Frank Darabont

  Powerful, Silence, Sound

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• I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Odds

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects, percussive and other sounds. He also mixed the sound effects and the music, using the theater's first rate sound system to complement the theater's acoustics. This completed my score.

  Jeff Britting

  Sound, Firsts, Acoustics

  Source: www.theobjectivestandard.com

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• Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.

  Pete Docter

  Writing, Cutting, Drawing

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Sound, Doe

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• However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Thinking, Sound, Environment

  "Nobuo Part 2". Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider and Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world - they make the sound, not you. It's very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It's much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you're going to get.

  Gary Rydstrom

  Block, Real, Interesting

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• The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.

  Ryan North

  Book, Character, Writing

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• There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Kids, Night, Scary

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.

  Mike Vogel

  Sound, Watches, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car - I still fall for it every time.

  Doug Benson

  Song, Crazy, Hate

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• I came to love the rhythm of the sound effects and the whole experience of listening to a story. I made a lot of stuff with my hands and so I loved being free to not watch a screen. I still love it to this day.

  Larry Fessenden

  Hands, Listening, Being Free

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Stupid, Holiday

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• Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

  Martin Scorsese

  Fog, Whales, Wife

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

  Shashi Tharoor

  Years, Elephants, Two

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• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  Dick York

  Music, Play, Air

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• People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio. Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape.

  Bill Burr

  Morning, People, Guy

  Source: chicagoist.com

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